Having been part of a company acquired by EA: It's EA. Nobody "cashed out", because the stock options turned into so much hot air. You couldn't have pried busi

Having been part of a company acquired by EA: It's EA. Nobody "cashed out", because the stock options turned into so much hot air. You couldn't have pried business goals out of EA with a autopsy kit. They were interested in IP, and in "leadership". They deliberately drove the rest of the business into the ground to get rid of most of the devs. And, talking to other people acquired by EA, that was far from the exception. In general, anybody who worked for EA in a non-exec role can tell you: If you wonder who the villain is, you could do worse than guess it's EA "leaders"